| They need to get the amnio done anyway, to screen for congenital disorders. |
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| You see the main complication of an amnio is that it can cause a miscarriage in a proportion of women. |
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| Monday I go in for an amnio to make sure our baby doesn't have Downs Syndrome or some other chromosome disorder. |
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| Look, Doctor, Kathy is going to get her amnio in a few weeks, we'll see what happens then. |
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| Although I understand their concern I am quite reluctant to get an amnio and take any risk. |
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| We got a 99 percent all-clear for any neural tube defects and were told that the doctor saw no need for an amnio. |
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| We also decided not to tell anybody else until the results of the amnio came in. |
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| The whole process is called an amniocentesis, or amnio, in the vernacular. |
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| And yes you can get an amnio done just because you want one. |
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| But the risk of miscarriage from amnio increases with multiple births, though by exactly how much is unknown. |
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| I had three different nurse-midwives call me and lecture me on the low risks of an amnio, telling me that I was not taking things seriously enough. |
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| If she had read the results of the second pregnancy's amnio online? |
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| Once I got beyond that easy mistake, it was easy to say no to amnio. |
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| They'd waited thirteen days for the amnio results, then sat in a hallway in plastic chairs while their O. B. explained to them about the fetus's malevolent extra twenty-first chromosome. |
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